In http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html Richard Korman interviews Brewster Kahle who contructed the largest database ever, 100 terabytes, running on 300 PCs with Linux and FreeBSD. A quote: "Almost everything we can, we do in Perl -- for ease of portability, maintability, flexibility."
-- Johan
